OK, so I think memory was wrong on this. I found this online:
In the 1980's we used 14 inch drives in our DEC VAX cluster. Each 14 inch drive had a capacity of about 450MB
Those platters were definitely the 14" size, and there was more than one of them in the refridgerator-sized unit. At this temporal distance, I can't guess what the overall size was anymore, but it was clearly not 1MB.
Sorry for the misleading post. Still, it was quite a day, regardless.
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OK, so I think memory was wrong on this. I found this online:
Those platters were definitely the 14" size, and there was more than one of them in the refridgerator-sized unit. At this temporal distance, I can't guess what the overall size was anymore, but it was clearly not 1MB.
Sorry for the misleading post. Still, it was quite a day, regardless.
https://gunkies.org/wiki/RA81_disk_drive
A single head? Amazing.